Mouwase

Timothy Usher, Santa Fe Institute

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Johnston (1919-1920) 130 comparative terms for Karima of Kibeni village

Franklin ed. (1973: 573-575) 100 comparative terms for Omati

Carr (2006) 190 comparative terms for Mowase of Gibidai village

Petterson (2014) dictionary of Mouwase (1,198 terms)

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Mouwase has 11 consonants and 5 vowels as follows:

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There is no palatal non-stop /j/, because Omati River /*j/ has been occluded to apical /ɾ/ in all positions.

Neither final consonants nor consonant clusters occur, Omati River final consonants having been appended with a final vowel as in the Dukemi and Mene dialects of Kaser.

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Bilabial nasal /m/ …:

Apical nasal /n/ …:

Apical voiceless stop /t/ …:

Velar voiceless stop /k/ …:

Bilabial voiced stop /b/ …:

Apical voiced stop /d/ …:

Bilabial fricative /ɸ/ …:

Fricative /s/ …:

Unoccluded fricative /h/ …:

Bilabial non-stop /w/ …:

Apical non-stop /ɾ/ …:

… vowels …:

High front vowel /i/ …:

High back vowel /u/ …:

Mid front vowel /e/ …:

Mid back vowel /o/ …:

Low central vowel /a/ …:

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Carr (2006) gives Mowase pronouns as follows:

Nothing is known about Mowase verbal morphology.